'It's a vision of yourself': What it's like to be a drag queen in Ireland

In a country known for its social conservatism, we’ve finally found our fabulousness. But what is it really like being a draq queen in Ireland today?

Irish drag queens in action: Cork drag royalty Candy Warhol; Dublin queen Davina Devine with Spice Girl Mel C; Cork-based drag artist Mia Gold.

Last month, in her show If These Wigs Could Talk at London’s Soho Theatre, Panti Bliss asked her audience: “What am I for anymore? Why the fuck am I still in drag?” 

The Queen of Ireland, having blazed a trail in a country famous for its social conservatism, has a point — Ireland has finally found its fabulousness.